Bismark Convoy Smashed!, also known as Battle of the Bismark Sea, is a Second World War 1943 Australian documentary newsreel film about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 2–3 March, an engagement which resulted in the claimed destruction of 22 Japanese ships, their crews and 15,000 soldiers. Actual Japanese losses were rather less, but still devastating.[1]
It used footage shot by Damien Parer.[2]
^Gillison, Douglas (1962). Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942. Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Series 3 – Air. Vol. 1. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. p. 696. OCLC 2000369.
^"The Latest". Daily Advertiser. Wagga Wagga, NSW: National Library of Australia. 23 March 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 19 April 2015. - "Cameraman In Air Battle". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 23 March 1943. p. 1. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
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